…Inside I had been saving Playdead’s follow-up to their critically acclaimed Limbo for a special a occasion. The reviews for Inside have been spectacular to say the least – usually I would be sceptical of such high praise but with countless scores of 10/10 and 5 stars you can’t ignore such hype forever. That’s why…

Theme Hospital was the brainchild of Bullfrog Productions and released in 1997 on PC and PlayStation. In a sense, it was a kind of spiritual successor to Bullfrog’s other hit game, Theme Park. The game play and setting were vastly different but both games shared a very British sense of humour, creating a tone which unites both games….

A fellow blogger of mine did a top 10 on the sexiest female game characters. I thought I would do one for the ladies just to be fair. #10 Gordon Freeman Half Life Gordon freeman is the main protagonist from Half Life. With those piercing green eyes, well-trimmed facial hair and glasses he is hot….

Ok so I have jumped on the Kojima hype train, and quite frankly I am excited for Death Stranding. Recently a new trailer was released and I had to watch it. I will say when it finished I was confused more than ever. Although it was great to see that Mads Mikkelson and Guillermo del…

I spent last Saturday purely playing Minecraft (Please do not judge me). I was amazed how easy it was to forget the world around me existed, and surprised at how therapeutic it felt. I would consider my working week stressful at times. It was great to be so immersed, that I could escape that stress…

If you were to look up the average age of Netflix subscribers on the World Wide Web (as I did) you’ll see that the most prolific age brackets are somewhere between 25 – 35. Netflix has clearly noticed this too as their latest masterpiece, Stanger Things taps directly into that age category. When your average…

So at the end of my last post on the potted history of gaming we had left the post war period of the 50’s and 60’s and their noughts and crosses playing oscillators and gone onto Spacewar, the first true video game. This post see’s us landing firmly in the turbulent decades of the 70’s…

It has been a long time since I blogged. recently I have been playing No Mans Sky. A space exploration game; where you explore different systems and the planets they have to offer. So I started playing the game a few days ago. I found the tutorial part a bit of a grind and a…

There’s an old expression… “A camel is a horse designed by committee” While this might not be true when applied to all films made by big studios, one cant help but wonder if this is one reason why things don’t seem to be working out for DC’s cinematic universe. In the run up to Suicide…

No Man’s Sky is now releasing in various regions around the world. I have not played it yet (I fully intend to) but I have been tracking it’s progress for what seems like years now and I feel I know enough about the game to pose a bold question… Are we witnessing the future of…

Recently, I was speaking with a colleague and fellow Milk Badger blogger, Kerreantbun (check out her blog posts, they are excellent) about Until Dawn and how she intended to do two separate play-throughs. The first would be as herself, making all decisions based on what she would do in real life. The second play-through she…

I was reading a post about Pokémon GO and it detailed how the game is brainwashing people and turning them into zombies. Pretty strong words. Yet I have read so many good stories that Pokémon GO has created. As with anything in life there are good sides and bad sides. Yet I notice some people…

OK so this is not gaming news but I felt I had to shout all about Stranger Things a Netflix original. A colleague of mine told me about the series and as soon as I heard it was set in the 80’s I knew I had to watch it. Today was one of the rare occasions…

Perseverance is a word that I think would best summarise my experience with Ubisoft’s open world shooter, The Division. Its been well over four months since its launch and my interest level has gone from ecstatic to lukewarm at a very smooth rate. There is so much that this game does right, but it’s just…

When I started writing for this blog, i had just become a dad and was struggling for time and ideas on what to write; then I had a brainwave, write about what interests me. In my case after my friends and family, which is a given; my two big interests are gaming and history. I…